Torsten Steinbach
VP, Chief Architect For Analytics & AI at EDB
Stuttgart Region Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTorsten Steinbach is a seasoned technology leader and chief architect specializing in analytics, ML and AI, currently leading efforts to evolve PostgreSQL into a lakehouse and in-database generative AI platform at EDB. With over two decades of experience across IBM roles—from distinguished engineer and CTO for Lakehouse and Big Data in Cloud to lead architect for cloud data lake and workload management—he excels at turning complex, cross-disciplinary requirements into production-grade distributed systems. He combines deep database, WLM and performance tooling expertise with hands-on experience embedding data science and Apache Spark into databases, enabling scalable in-database analytics and cloud-native SQL services. Torsten is known for setting bold technical visions and rallying teams to deliver them through agile and DevOps practices, including microservices, containerization and cloud observability. A pragmatic engineer who still engages directly with customers and conferences, he uniquely blends product-facing leadership with low-level performance and scheduling know-how. Based in the Stuttgart region, he brings a rare mix of database internals, cloud platform architecture and real-world AI data management experience.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf. Applied Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf. Applied Computer Science at Hochschule Mittweida 
English, French, German, Swedish
Stackoverflow
391reputation
39kreached
35answers
0questions
Github Skills (63)
cloud-sql10
ibm-cloud9
sql-query9
jupyter-notebook8
sql8
oracle8
jupyter7
notebook7
db26
pyspark6
jupyterlab6
jdbc6
similarity6
apache-spark6
data-science-experience6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
IBM-Cloud/sql-query-clients
Feb 2018 - Dec 2022
Client samples for IBM Cloud SQL Query service
Contributions:3 releases, 35 reviews, 279 commits in 4 years 11 months
querycloud-sqlsqlibm-cloudoracle
torsstei/vector_samples
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.